ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff, who returned to work just 13 months after he was nearly killed by a bomb while reporting in Iraq, has won another journalism honour.

Woodruff will receive the Daniel Pearl Award for courage and integrity in journalism in June.

The award, named for the Wall Street Journal reporter kidnapped and killed by militants in Pakistan in 2002, will be presented to Woodruff at the 50th annual Southern California Journalism Awards gala in Los Angeles on June 21.

"Bob has become an iconic role model, not only of journalistic courage and integrity, but also of the capacity of the human spirit to turn injury into challenge," Pearl's parents, Judea and Ruth Pearl, said in a statement. The couple's Daniel Pearl Foundation presents the award jointly with the Los Angeles Press Club.

Past recipients have included U.S. war correspondent Kevin Sites, Mexican editor Jesus Blancornelas, whose Tijuana weekly Zeta shines a light on the drug trade, and reporter and editor Michael Kelly, who was killed while on assignment in Iraq in 2003.

Woodruff nearly killed by roadside bomb

Woodruff was reporting from Iraq in January 2006 when a roadside bomb struck the vehicle in which he was travelling. He suffered a serious head injury and spent more than a month in a medically induced coma.

By February 2007, he was back at work. Last week, his series of news reports Wounds of War — The Long Road Home of Our Nation's Veterans was among the latest winners of the Peabody Award for broadcast excellence.

Another Peabody winner was CBS reporter Kimberly Dozier, who also survived a near-fatal attack while in Iraq.

Woodruff has also co-written a book with his wife about his recovery process and created a fund to support the rehabilitation of military personnel suffering from traumatic brain injuries.

With files from the Associated Press